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n. 1 (context military English) (rfdef lang=en topic=military) 2 (context medicine education invariant English)Category:English invariant nouns A series of lectures whose subject matter is a particular patient or similar case.
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Grand rounds are an important teaching tool and ritual of medical education and inpatient care, consisting of presenting the medical problems and treatment of a particular patient to an audience consisting of doctors, residents and medical students. The patient was traditionally present for the round and would answer questions; grand rounds have evolved with most sessions now rarely having a patient present and being more like lectures. An actor portrays the patient in some instances.
Grand rounds help doctors and other healthcare professionals keep up to date in important evolving areas which may be outside of their core practice. Most departments at major teaching hospitals will have their own specialized, often weekly, Grand Rounds. Attending Grand Rounds is also an important supplement to medical school and on-the-job resident training. (Grand rounds can also be distinguished from rounds which is the (typically) daily visit by the attending physician and team to all that physician's patients on the ward. Rounding with an attending physician is an important part of medical on-the-job training and education, but its primary focus is immediate care for the patients on the ward. Grand rounds tends to present the bigger picture, including experience with patients over many years, and the newest research and treatments in an area. Grand rounds tend to be open to the entire medical professional community, whereas rounds are specific to individual attending physicians and their teams).
Usage examples of "grand rounds".
We'll be here all day getting these orders written and we've got Grand Rounds at noon.
That meeting went over, so he was a few minutes late to surgical grand rounds, where he presented a case of triple-valve replacement.
Cummings hated it when staff was late for grand rounds, though God knows he'd kept them waiting often enough.
During the evening a troop of consultants, residents, and interns stopped by his room on grand rounds.